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Chinese not displayed properly
Due to my hosting company’s issue with MySql language character set, my Chinese entries will not be displayed properly. I am trying to fix it. My patience with the hosting company, MidPhase, is running low. My site has had many issues in less than one month’s existence.
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Firefighter Association Calls
At my house, I am usually the one that answers the telephone. A couple of weeks ago, we started getting calls around dinner time. The annoying thing was that right after I said “Hello”, I would not hear anything back, even after waiting for a while for a response. So I had to hang up…
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Great webcast on SQLCMD
Michiel Wories, a PM from Microsoft, did a great webcast on SQLCMD back in the summer. I highly recommend you to check it out.
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SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio, and BizTalk launch event tomorrow in Chicago
I will be attending the launch tomorrow at McCormick Place. I will be wondering around and attending sessions. Feel free to stop me and say hi if you will be there. To get a glimpse of what I look like, check out the book I co-wrote on SSIS. I am the one on the upper…
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wget and lynx
Linux and Unix gurus can ignore this post, but if you have better tips to share, please feel free to comment. I write this mainly as a note to myself and hopefully help out Linux / Unix newbies at the same time. wget is perfect for downloading stuff through a command line. This is a…